Bangladesh continued their dismal performance in the five-nation Asia Cup Cricket scoring 204 runs for 9 in stipulated 50 overs against finalists Sri Lanka in their last match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Thursday.
An apparently demoralized Bangladesh team made three changes in its line-up that lost to Pakistan, dropping seam bowler Shafiul Islam, left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak and opening batsman Imrul Kayes for Rubel Hossain, Arafat Sunny and Shamsur Rahman.
However, Imrul Kayes, who made a fifty in the last match, was dropped due to injury.
The Bengal Tigers, yet to manage any win after playing three Asia Cup matches, opened the innings first after winning the toss and made a good start scoring 74 runs in 18.2 overs in the opening stand.
But Sri Lankan right arm off break bowler Ajantha Mendis made the breakthrough dismissing opener Shamsur Rahman (39) and reliable one down batsman Mominul Haque (1) in the span of only four balls for two runs in the 19th over with the score at 76 for 2.
Bangladesh was in trouble again when captain Mushfiqur Rahim made early departure scoring only four runs off 6 balls, trapped lbw by Chaturanga de Silva, leaving team total 87 for 3 in 21.5 overs.
Bangladesh misery further compounded when they lost two more quick wickets of opener Anamul Haque and all rounder Shakib Al Hasan at 119 for 5 in 33.2 overs.
Anamul Haque was very unlucky in the match as he returned to the dressing room, caught brilliantly by Lahiru Thirimanne off a Ashan Priyanjan delivery, just one run short of his half century (49 runs off 86 balls), the highest runs of the innings that featured two fours and a six
In the 6th wicket stand, Nasir Hossain pairing with Mahmudullah tried their best to repair the early damage contributing 55 runs in 11.1 overs. Nasir Hossain scored a patient 30 runs off 49 balls with one four while Mahmudullah also contributed 30 runs off 41 balls with two fours.
Ziaur Rahman made 12 runs off 22 balls that included one boundary.
Ashan Priyanjan, Thisara Perera, Suranga Lakmal and Ajantha Mendis took two wickets each for 11, 29, 32 and 55 runs respectively while Chaturanga de Silva bagged one for 33 runs.
Source: UNB Connect
IT WAS NOT ONLY A GAME!
Indian POODLE Hasina’s ministers after ministers were telling Bangladeshi people who went to visit recent series of cricket games held in Dhaka not to cheer the Pakistani cricketers saying to do so were equal to sedition! Yet many Bangladeshi Muslim supporters cheered madly when Pakistani players were taking wickets of their opponents or hitting sixes and majority of the cheering Bangladeshis were well dressed very beautiful girls. One sitting near our row was shouting Pakistan Zindabad and none was there to stop her shouting, none wanted to. Others were shouting, “MAAR MAAR SOKHKHA MAAR” (hit sixes)!! Pakistan lost to Sri Lanka in the final. From Dhala Abdul Latif Biwsash:=====
Pakistan defeated India last Sunday in a match played in Bangladesh [AFP]
Dozens of Kashmiri students who cheered for the Pakistani cricket team during a recent match against India have been expelled from their university and briefly threatened with sedition charges, police have said.The Indian state’s elected leader had called for leniency from the charges, which carries a possible life sentence, on Thursday, while the northern state of Meerut’s deputy inspector general of police, K Satyanarayana, said police had charged 67 students with disturbing communal harmony and damage to public property.Reports said they were being hunted by police, who were considering bringing charges of sedition. However, Omar Abdullah, the chief minister of Indian-controlled Kashmir, said sedition charges would be “unacceptably harsh” and ruin the students’ future and further alienate them.
“I don’t condone what they did, what they did was obviously wrong and misguided,” he told Indian news channel NDTV. “That having been said, they are young … [sedition charges[ will further push them to the fringes,” he added.Nevertheless, several of the students said their expulsion indicated discrimination.”We didn’t do anything illegal,” said Muteebul Majid, a business administration student in his 20s. “Are they slapping these charges against us for being Kashmiris or for cheering for the Pakistani team?”Like several other students who spoke to the media Thursday, Majid had returned to his home in Srinagar, the main city in India-controlled Kashmir, after leaving school.Gulzar Ahmed, also a business administration student, said he and his friends were never given a chance to explain themselves.
Pakistan support – Meanwhile, Pakistan’s government showed support for the students.”If these Kashmiri students want to come and pursue their studies in Pakistan, our hearts and academic institutions are open to them,” Pakistani Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said.The expulsion of the students followed a clash with another group of students, who were angered by their celebrations over Pakistan’s victory in a limited over Asia Cup match played in Bangladesh.Nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India have fought three major wars since they became independent in 1947, two of them over Kashmir, a divided Himalayan territory that both countries claim.www.aljazeeraenglish.com:08043.14